Alexander Hamilton Papers

To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 7 January 1795

From Tench Coxe

Treasury Department, Revenue Office, January 7, 1795. “… the House of Whelen & Miller1 propose to set a part a specimen of Salt Petre for the Standard, above or below which they are content to vary the price of 12 50/100 Dolls. It is called rough Salt Petre, and is 10 ⅌ Ct. below the requisite degree of refinement.”

LC, RG 75, Letters of Tench Coxe, Commissioner of the Revenue, Relating to the Procurement of Military, Naval, and Indian Supplies, National Archives.

1. The firm of Israel Whelen and Joseph I. Miller. See Coxe to H, December 9, 1794.

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    To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 7 January 1795
    Author
    Coxe, Tench
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    Hamilton, Alexander
    Date
    7 January 1795

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    “To Alexander Hamilton from Tench Coxe, 7 January 1795,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-18-02-0024. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 18, January 1795 – July 1795, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1973, p. 25.]

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